Unai Emery reflected on a 1-1 draw between Aston Villa and Leeds United.
The team have dropped points again on home soil in the new year after 1-0 losses against **Everton**and Brentford, but they are still third in the Premier League table behind just **Man City**and Arsenal. Emery expressed the reality that this is not an ideal outcome, but the group have gone a little closer towards their objectives, and they will be thankful to Tammy Abraham for his late leveller.
*“It’s not the best result, not worst. When we were losing in the minute 89, 1-0, to draw this match was something fantastic. We must be positive. We must accept this result in the Premier League because every team (is) showing their capacity, how difficult is the Premier League, for us, for other teams.*
“How we are third, still being there, how we achieved today one point like how we were, I think should be something (we) must accept like a positive result and keep going forward, because we are going to try to be consistent in 38 matches. Now we are (on) the day 27, we’re still being third.
“Of course, we lost some points at home, normally we weren’t losing before, but I am positive with how we are going to continue working, building the team. We are going to recover again, our good mood here at home with our supporters and with our structure, tactically and individually.”
*“Fantastic. [Tammy] He scored last week, he scored today. He’s here to compete with Ollie Watkins, sometimes one, sometimes another. Something they must play together, like they did today, and they must try to add numbers for us. Numbers for other strikers normally is scoring or assists, but it’s good, how he’s being committed to help us like he did today.”*